MMMmmm... food....

It's economical, it's fast, it's delicious... it's Korean delivery! There are several reasons why delivery in Korea is pretty much incredible:

• There is no delivery charge
• The food arrives quickly
• No dishes or trash to deal with
• No need to tip (It's not customary in Korea)
  

The most popular kinds of food delivery in Korea are Pizza, Chicken, Chinese, and other Korean (Pig's feet, and stir-fried chicken). My first time ordering was from a Korean restaurant recommended to me by my school. My experience: The delivery man knocked on our door and gave us a huge plastic container with all our food in it. All the food was on real dishes that were tightly wrapped with plastic wrap. It even came with an array of side dishes for free! When we were finished eating, we put all the dishes and trash back into the container. We put the container outside our door, and the delivery guy picked it up later. That's it!

So, in this post I will explain how to order food and get it delivered to your home in Korea. First things first, you need to either know how to read Hangul or have someone write everything down phonetically for you.

You need to know:
1) Your address
2) The name of the food you want to order
3) How many you want
4) The phone number of the restaurant (and your area code)

Ok, let's say you have one of these:
You're going to need to know your area code if you want to call this number. I googled Korean area codes and found "31" for Pyeongtaek and it worked. So I would dial 31-667-4510. Someone will answer and I would say, "배달주세요" (pay-dal-joo-say-yo) which basically means, "Delivery, please." Now, I'm not sure if this is what a Korean person would say (actually, I'm sure it's not) but it always gets my point across. Then I usually hear a "네" (yes). Then I say my address.

Without getting overly technical about addresses in Korea, I will just show an example:
459-813
경기도 평택시 송탄동
200-3 시뉴빌라 108동 403호

Ok, I just made up this address based off the format of my own.
Here it is in English:
459-813
Gyeonggi-do Pyeongtaek-si Songtan-dong
200-3 Shinyoo Villa 108dong 403ho

So you really only need the last line of that. 200-3 is your 반지 (sounds like Pun-jee, it's like your street number). So you would say, "ee-baek dashee sam pun-jee, Shinyoo Billa, Baek-pal-dong, sa-baek-sam-ho" Ok, that might not make any sense to anyone...

Then you can ask for what you want to order! With the menu above I could say, "생선까스 하나, 하고 새우까스 하나 주세요" (Sang-sun ka-suh hana, hago say-oo kah-suh hana joo-say-yo). Which means, "One fried fish order, and one fried shrimp order, please." Then you can just say Thank you! You should see your food within the next 3o minutes!

Another cool thing is that they save your phone number and address. So if you ever call again you shouldn't have to say your address all over again.

Good luck!